Month: October 2024

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Reasons Trump is Unfit for Office, With Sources

From this comment on Reddit:

Top reasons why Trump should not be president.

      1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Lost the election and lied about it. Source
      2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sent an armed angry mob to Congress and told them they need to fight like hell. Source
      3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Approved of the mob saying "hang Mike Pence". Source
      4. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Was found liable for sexual assault.Source
      5. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Was found guilty of defrauding his university students. Source
      6. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Was found guilty of inflating his assets to get favorable loans.Source
      7. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Admitted to walking in on pageant contestants' dressing rooms.Source
      8. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Allegedly Raped and beat Ivana Trump. Source
      9. ⁠⁠ Stole from a kids' cancer charity. Source
      10. Received $413 million inheritance despite claims that he's a self made man. Source
      11. Blocked his chronically ill infant nephew from getting any of that inheritance. Source
      12. Is the first president to receive votes against him from his own party during impeachment. Source
      13. Led us into being one of the worst hit during Covid despite our head start and resources, leading to high inflation. Source
      14. Said the Democrats do better with the economy.Source
      15. Was ranked as the worst president in history by bipartisan presidential historians.Source
      16. Pushed a plot to have fake votes created and then used to make him President despite losing the election.Source
      17. Ordered republicans to block a bipartisan immigration billso Biden would not get a win before the election.Source
      18. Is a convicted felon guilty of falsifying records to influence an election.Source
      19. Told the Department of Justice to "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen."Source
      20. His VP, Mike Pence said Trump should never be president again, and that Trump asked him to put himself "above the Constitution". Source
      21. Got Fox News successfully sued for repeating/pushing his administrations election lies. A $787M settlement. Source
      22. Said he'd be a dictator for one day Source
      23. Trump lied to, or misled the public 30,573 times in the four years he held office. Source

Also, just regarding some of the Trump administration that have been convicted of crimes:

Donald Trump was charged, convicted, and is awaiting sentencing.

Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump's former campaign vice chairman, Rick Gates, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump's former adviser and former campaign aide, Roger Stone, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump's former adviser and former White House aide Peter Navarro, was charged, convicted, and is currently in prison.

Trump's former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

The Trump Organization's former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump's former White House national security advisor, Michael Flynn, was charged and convicted.

Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was charged with wire fraud and money laundering, in addition to a conviction in a contempt case similar to Navarro's. He's currently awaiting sentencing.

Though he was later acquitted at trial, Trump's former inaugural committee chair, Tom Barrack, was charged with illegally lobbying Trump on behalf of a foreign government. (Elliot Broidy was the vice chair of Trump's inaugural committee, and he found himself at the center of multiple controversies, and also pled guilty to federal charges related to illegal lobbying.)

Two lawyers associated with Trump's post-defeat efforts, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, have pleaded guilty to election-related crimes.

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And if your vote is based strictly on economic achievements, here is a TikTok video comparing Trumps economy by the numbers. Tiktok link

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The Illustrated Man

He took his shirt off and wadded it in his hands. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line.

"It keeps right on going," he said, guessing my thought. "All of me is Illustrated. Look." He opened his hand. On his palm was a rose, freshly cut, with drops of crystal water among the soft pink petals. I put my hand out to touch it, but it was only an Illustration.

As for the rest of him, I cannot say how I sat and stared, for he was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. When his flesh twitched, the tiny mouths flickered, the tiny green-and-gold eyes winked, the tiny pink hands gestured. there were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest. The people themselves were in twenty or more odd groups upon his arms, shoulder, back, sides and wrists, as well as on the flat of his stomach. You found them in forests of hair, lurking among a constellation of freckles, or peering from armpit caverns, diamond eyes aglitter. Each seemed intent upon his own activity, each was a separate gallery portrait.

—Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

 

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He's Dead, Jim

Sony D-ES52CK

I knew what I was getting into when I bought it. Seller noted it as non-functional with a "no disc" error, but it was cheap and I thought why not give repairing it a shot? I've seen enough YouTube videos to know that the fix for the "no disc" error was simple – just some basic cleaning and a bit of tweaking of the laser's potentiometer. Hell, one video I watched even had this exact model and the numbers on the multimeter I needed to match to get it working.

Unfortunately, even after attaching a meter and mirroring what was shown in the video (and afterward a whole lot of playing around with other values), it still stubbornly refuses to read discs. The laser and the transport mechanism is verified as working (it moves normally and attempts to focus), but so far I've had no luck resuscitating it.

I did note that someone else had already been into it. The screws that hold the top plate of the bottom half of the unit in place all but fell out when I went to remove them, so who knows what's been fucked around with? (Says the guy who's fucking around with it.)

I'm half-tempted to seek out a working unit and just throw this one in the donate pile. I do rather like the styling of this lil' nugget.